Allison Remmer
Allison Remmer carries a family legacy on her shoulders and has made it heavier by choice. The Remmer family were Rovers who traveled the length of Old Dominion, fell in love with its people and its roads, and founded the first Highway Patrol generations ago. Allison inherited the command and immediately set about making it better. She devised rigorous new recruitment tests that weeded out the careless and the cowardly, paired new recruits with veterans to increase survival rates, and adopted a more aggressive posture against the Dominion Dogs who plague the roadways.
Her frustration is not with her people but with the limits of geography. The Dominion Dogs slip through every trap she sets, retreating into forest bases that the Patrol has never been able to locate. Sending patrols into the woods to search means sending them into the Watchers' hunting ground, a trade she is not yet willing to make. Her solution is scale: more Patrolmen, more checkpoints, coverage frequent enough that no stretch of road goes unwatched for more than thirty minutes. She handles more recruits daily than she can possibly accept, and her lieutenants are trusted to make decisions in her absence.
Her only stated regret is that she cannot be everywhere at once. It is the kind of regret that drives a person to work harder rather than accept the limitation, and Allison Remmer has never been one to accept limitations quietly. The roads of Old Dominion are safer than they have been in a generation, and she intends to make them safer still.
Her frustration is not with her people but with the limits of geography. The Dominion Dogs slip through every trap she sets, retreating into forest bases that the Patrol has never been able to locate. Sending patrols into the woods to search means sending them into the Watchers' hunting ground, a trade she is not yet willing to make. Her solution is scale: more Patrolmen, more checkpoints, coverage frequent enough that no stretch of road goes unwatched for more than thirty minutes. She handles more recruits daily than she can possibly accept, and her lieutenants are trusted to make decisions in her absence.
Her only stated regret is that she cannot be everywhere at once. It is the kind of regret that drives a person to work harder rather than accept the limitation, and Allison Remmer has never been one to accept limitations quietly. The roads of Old Dominion are safer than they have been in a generation, and she intends to make them safer still.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The Remmer family were Rovers by origin, wanderers who covered the length of Old Dominion and came to love its culture of hospitality and hard work. They saw the danger on the roads, the bandits and raiders who preyed on travelers between settlements, and decided to do something about it. The first Highway Patrol was a Remmer enterprise, and every generation since has carried that torch.
Allison grew up knowing the Patrol was her inheritance. When her time came to lead, she did not simply maintain what her family had built. She redesigned the recruitment process from the ground up, introducing tests that measured judgment under pressure rather than just physical endurance. New recruits were paired with experienced Patrolmen, reducing the mortality rate for first-year members. She turned the Patrol from a family tradition into a professional fighting force.
The Dominion Dogs remain her primary frustration. Their forest camps are hidden, their raids are fast, and her traps catch nothing. She believes the answer is coverage rather than cunning: enough eyes on enough road that nothing slips through. Whether she can recruit fast enough to make that vision real is the question that keeps her awake at night.
Allison grew up knowing the Patrol was her inheritance. When her time came to lead, she did not simply maintain what her family had built. She redesigned the recruitment process from the ground up, introducing tests that measured judgment under pressure rather than just physical endurance. New recruits were paired with experienced Patrolmen, reducing the mortality rate for first-year members. She turned the Patrol from a family tradition into a professional fighting force.
The Dominion Dogs remain her primary frustration. Their forest camps are hidden, their raids are fast, and her traps catch nothing. She believes the answer is coverage rather than cunning: enough eyes on enough road that nothing slips through. Whether she can recruit fast enough to make that vision real is the question that keeps her awake at night.
Leader of Old Dominion's Highway Patrol, Remmer family heir.
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